TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dinslage, Sabine
A1  - Leger, Rudolf
T1  - Language and migration : the impact of the Jukun on Chadic speaking groups in the Benue-Gongola basin
T2  - Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs 268
N2  - Our paper deals with the problems of migration, culture and language in the wider Benue-Gongola basin. Here are mainly concerned the West-Chadic speaking groups Kwami, Kupto, Kushi and Piya as well as the Jukun who speak a language belonging to the Benue-Congo family. We try to point out the possible reasons for their historical migrations and in particular the consequences of ethnic expansion of the Jukun in the middle Benue region. History shows that contacts of ethnic groups - being peaceful or by force - had always led to mutual influences and changes in culture and language, which finally resulted in cultural fusion of various aspects. Our study, based mainly on oral traditions as well as on linguistic comparisons, focusses especially on the history of the above mentioned Chadic groups, who are considered - according to our hypothesis - to have come in close contact with the Jukun. Subsequently the warlike expansion of the Jukun caused a strong turmoil which led to the scattering of the various ethnic units.
T3  - Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs 268 - 08, 067 
Y1  - 1996
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/1877
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-35330
VL  - 8
SP  - 67
EP  - 75
PB  - SFB 268
CY  - Frankfurt, M.
ER  -